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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: SEQUENTIA_IO and stdin/stdout (Standard_Input, Standard_Output)
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Date: 2003-10-14T16:45:39+00:00

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 14:29, Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > I came from C world and brought the question: how I can open stdin or
> > stdout as a SEQUENTIAL file?
> 
> Parameterless function Text_IO.Standard_Input returns a value of File_Type.
> 
> Function Text_IO.Name takes a value of File_Type as a parameter and returns
> the name of the corresponding file.

Are you suggesting the trick of finding out the name of Standard_Output
(say) and then open a sequential file with that name? Sounds clever, but
unfortunately it doesn't work. See my previous reply (actually a
forward) for a 'proper' solution to this problem.